Josiane Grinfas Books

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Molière's story of a covetous old miser, obsessively protecting his hoard of gold and neglecting his long-suffering children. Harpagon is obsessed with the wealth he has amassed and always ready to save expenses. Now a widower, he has a son, Cléante, and a daughter, Élise. Although he is over sixty, he is attempting to marry his son's own sweetheart, Mariane. But it seems that Harpagon's pinchpenny paranoia is finally catching up with him - his gold is missing, and this time it might really have disappeared for good... The Miser was first performed in 1668, at the theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris. This English version, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic series, is translated and introduced by Martin Sorrell.

Un mari bat sa femme qui se venge en faisant de lui un médecin des plus inattendus. Il découvre bientôt que ce métier pourrait bien être le meilleur du monde... Cette pièce est une des plus célèbres de Molière pour son art achevé de la farce et du comique de situation. Si elle nous fait toujours autant rire, elle sait aussi nous toucher et nous émouvoir.